I'd say Mortal Kombat has a ton of movie potential just based off the first game... why do I say this? Besides the crazy chi fireball fantasy stuff and the cyborg... it's essentially Enter The Dragon. It was a rip off of a movie. When I want a more realistic version of Mortal Kombat I just watch Enter The Dragon.

Bruce Lee is the best Liu Kang ever.

If I want a Mortal Kombat movie, I want the over the top sfx and fantasy stuff. That's what makes it Mortal Kombat. Otherwise it's just GI JOE and Enter the Dragon mish mash.

I got the impression Reptile was just a vermin creature that got trapped in the paracite armor, so there could be lots of them out in the wastelands...

MK1 was a damn decent flick. Not a filLLLlm. A flick. Light. Entertaining. Worked.
MK2 was an abomination. Not as bad as some (Highlander 3,4,5,6...) but far worse than it had any right to be. Swapping Christopher Lambert for Ray Park might have been OK, if they were... OK, it was a bad choice. Sure Ray Park can do the martial arts, but his voice didn't have the gravitas.

DOA wasn't a total waste as a movie. They even included a volleyball scene.

Also, it seems episodes will be set at different times- episodes will be set either before MK1 or just after, but never past MK2 (this will explain the cyber-ninjas, despite that process not happening until after the events of MK1).

I d have to rewatch the movies as Id have no clue what would come before and after and what not. lol its been way to long since I watched them. I ll have to see if I can dig em up here online somewhere.

Actually, I believe he's referring to the story of the games- Legacy has no relation to the previous films or TV shows. But in the backstory of the games, the cyber-ninja stuff didn't happen until after/during MK2- Cyraz and Sektor don't show up until MK3 and Smoke is human in MK2 but cyber in ML3).

Some probably will. They've said these all take place before or between the events of the first 2 games, so this might remain something of an anthology for a bit for certain characters, unless they cover flashes to the actual tournament.